Crisis & opportunity [ sustainability in American agriculture

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ikerd, John E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press , c2008
Series:Our sustainable future
Subjects:
Online Access:NetLibrary
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Crisis and opportunity in American agriculture
  • 2. Why we should stop promoting industrial agriculture
  • 3. Corporate agriculture and family farms
  • 4. The corporatization of America
  • 5. Rediscovering agriculture and new hope for farming
  • 6. Farming in harmony with nature and society
  • 7. Reclaiming the sacred in food and farming
  • 8. Do we really need to define sustainable agriculture?
  • 9. Foundational principles of soils, stewardship, and sustainability
  • 10. Economics of sustainable farming
  • 11. The renaissance of rural America
  • 12. Walking the talk of sustainable agriculture
  • 13. Survival strategies for small farms
  • 14. Marketing in the niches for sustainability
  • 15. Local organic farms save farmland and communities
  • 16. The triple bottom line of farming in the future
  • 17. The real costs of globalization
  • 18. Redirecting government policies for agricultural sustainability
  • 19. The new American food system
  • 20. American agriculture after fossil energy